Editing Soviet submarine K-219 (section)

==In popular culture==
In 1997, the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[BBC]] television film ''[[Hostile Waters (film)|Hostile Waters]]'', co-produced with [[HBO]] and starring [[Rutger Hauer]], [[Martin Sheen]], and [[Max von Sydow]], was released in the United States by [[Warner Bros.]] It was based on the book by the same name, which claimed to describe the loss of ''K-219''. In 2001, Captain Britanov filed suit, claiming Warner Bros. did not seek or get his permission to use his story or his character, and that the film did not portray the events accurately and made him look incompetent. After three years of hearing, the court ruled in Britanov's favor.<ref name=soundings/> Russian media reported that the filmmaker paid a settlement totaling under $100,000.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

After the release of the movie, the U.S. Navy issued the following statement regarding both the book and the movie:

{{Blockquote|The United States Navy normally does not comment on submarine operations, but in {{sic|the|expected=this}} case, because the scenario is so outrageous, the Navy is compelled to respond. The United States Navy categorically denies that any U.S. submarine collided with the Soviet [[Yankee-class submarine]] K-219 or that the Navy had anything to do with the cause of the casualty that resulted in the loss of the Soviet Yankee-class submarine.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=U.S. Navy Office of Information |url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=171 |title=Hostile Waters |access-date=15 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612222624/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=171 |archive-date=12 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>|author=|title=|source=}}

An article on the U.S. Navy's website posted by Captain 1st Rank (Ret.) Igor Kurdin (former XO of ''K-219'') and Lieutenant Commander Wayne Grasdock denied any collision between ''K-219'' and ''Augusta''. Captain Britanov also denies a collision, and he has stated that he was not asked to be a guest speaker at Russian functions, because he refuses to follow the Russian government's interpretation of the ''K-219'' incident.{{sfn|Kurdin|Grasdock|2005}}

In a BBC interview recorded in February 2013, Admiral of the Fleet [[Vladimir Chernavin]], the [[Commander-in-chief|Commander-in-Chief]] of the Soviet Navy at the time of the ''K-219'' incident, says the accident was caused by a malfunction in a missile tube, and makes no mention of a collision with an American submarine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vladimir Chernavin |url=https://warandsecurity.com/tag/vladimir-chernavin/ |access-date=15 September 2023 |website=War and Security |language=en}}</ref>  The interview was conducted for the [[BBC Two|BBC2]] series ''The Silent War''.